Estée Lauder Quotes

All great things begin with a vision … a dream.

People do make their luck by daring to follow their instincts, taking risks and embracing every possibility.

Each businessperson must find a style, that voice that grows clearer and louder with each success and failure. Observing your own and your competitors’ successes and failures makes your inner business voice more sure and vivid.

I am a visceral person by nature. I act on instinct, quickly, without pondering possible disaster and without indulging in deep introspection.

Business is there if you go after it.

Projecting your mind into a successful situation is the most powerful means to achieve goals.

First comes the shy wish. Then you must have the heart to have the dream. Then, you work, and work.

When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.

Most good ideas sparkle in simplicity, so much so that everyone wonders why no one ever did that before.

I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.

Risk-taking is the cornerstone of empires.